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Brand New Earth: A Space Opera

by Mohlis Music

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GeN2Mo
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GeN2Mo A really well fleshed out and realised concept album with radio play elements in the general musical style of Townsends Ziltoid, just a lot less wacky and with a strong injection of SYL. And while it always stays close to Townsends work in style, there's by far enough really strong material here to enjoy it in its very own right. Favorite track: The Anthem Of Commander Zid.
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Prologue [This Old Earth] 08:48
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Prologue (This Old Earth) Brandon We’re told of the end of the world A cold reminder of what’s yet to come Below, the people of Earth Are force to choose to stay or choose to run...behold Behold, truth from the sky And when it all falls down, and surrounds us all, we’ll be realigned But those, with stars in their eyes Who realized what humankind was worth We go, we take to the skies It’s time to say goodbye to this old Earth Go forth in the night Burn down the walls that keep you confined For when the end of the world has come, you’ll be Realigned with the stars in the sky Brandon, Raven Dark animations sweep across your eyes And the cold dark truth will shine through the worst of Ezekiel’s lies And the man-made prophet will ensure the end of all human kind Brandon It’s time to find a brand new Earth! Brandon, Raven Open your eyes You fell for the lies Would you burn alive Brandon Or would you survive?! Brandon, Raven Dark revelations guide the fools of our race When the end draws near are you going to take the prophet’s embrace Or will you be a human of reason and join the fleet out in space Human’s finest Soldiers of science Lead the way to a brand new earth False religious Cognitive dissonance Won’t you join us Brandon Or join us in fire as the earth begins to expire Brandon, Raven We’re told of the end of the world To realize what humankind is worth We go, we take to the skies It’s time to say goodbye to this old earth We take to the skies It’s time to say goodbye to this old earth
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Brand New Earth 06:25
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Brand New Earth VERSE 1 Raven Maniacal, Ezekiel, commanding and deceitful Brandon Another disguise ‘til the moment arrives, solely to control the people Raven Infallible, delusional, controlling and relentless Brandon The heavens will bring a galactic design that will redefine the human process PRE-CHO We told all the believers That they had been deceived and The ones that don’t flee with us Will all get left behind Crowd (to record later) Stay on Earth or flee, the decision’s up to me Brandon, Raven Say goodbye to all that you’ve believed CHORUS Because stars, are photographs in time A billion years of lies And what if we all die before the sky begins to fall We’re running out of time To save all humankind Destroyed by our designs, it’s time to find a brand new… VERSE 2 Raven Subliminal, phenomenal, an iridescent evil Brandon Preparing the minds of the weak and the blind, to be ready for the subjugation Raven By your design, you redefine, the evolution signal Brandon Scientific minds, destroyers of mankind, down with the federation! PRE-CHO We told all the believers That they had been deceived and The ones that don’t flee with us Will all get left behind Crowd (to record later) Stay on Earth or flee, the decision’s up to me Brandon, Raven Say goodbye to all that you’ve believed CHORUS Because stars, are photographs in time A billion years of lies And what if we all die before the sky begins to fall We’re running out of time To save all humankind Destroyed by our designs, it’s time to find a brand new earth GUITAR SOLO CHORUS Because stars, are photographs in time A billion years of lies And what if we all die before the sky begins to fall We’re running out of time To save all humankind Destroyed by our designs, it’s time to find a brand new earth A billion years of lies We’re running out of time To save all humankind, it’s time to find a brand new earth
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The Airships Of Ezekiel 05:39
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The Airships Of Ezekiel Oh you, a satellite above me Hovering in open skies, in firelight, so beautiful to see So true, everything they said to me And here we are at the dawn of time, and the atmosphere Is getting hard to breath And we fall It’s true, the wheels turn in different ways You took it down and tore apart the elements that held it all in place But you, you see it with a different face, and they say you took it all, from your own home to bless us with your grace And we fall Thy kingdom come, crashing down to the earth! But no, blinded by unearthly cold an air that carries the nightmare across to the land of horrors untold The anger of god is unfurled, this is the end of the world! Gaze your eyes as the airships take to the skies!
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HMS Orion 12:23
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HMS Orion VERSE 1 Raven Activate the stasis chambers Rest your weary heads With the path behind us clear now We can plot the course ahead We’ve left behind, an empty shell of A planet we called home Now we fly in darkness in our geodesic domes An evacuation mission A one-way expedition to the stars VERSE 2 Brandon History tells us all how humankind survives Mystery compels us when it’s time to stay alive Perhaps we’ll find the central point from where we all derive But only if the life force feeds the anti-matter drive Brandon/Raven The HMS Orion The last of her kind flying through the stars Raven In the vast and lonely atmosphere Are we really all alone out here CHORUS Brandon/Raven In a galaxy light years away May we live long in a brand new way (so say we all) Set a course for somewhere wild and new May we fly at speeds of light with you Orion! (flying through the dark & starlit night) Orion! (Travelling without a hope in sight) SOLO VERSE 3 Brandon The pride of the alliance The flagship of the corps She’s the last survivor of the last atomic war Cosmic gods above us Guide us on the starlit trail Lead us to salvation where all Other humans failed Brandon/Raven Destination nowhere Don’t despair, it’s somewhere in the stars Raven In the vast and lonely atmosphere Are we really all alone out here CHORUS Brandon/Raven In a galaxy light years away May we live long in a brand new way (so say we all) Set a course for somewhere wild and new May we fly at speeds of light with you Orion! (flying through the dark & starlit night) Orion! (Travelling without a hope in sight) Orion! Oh-o-o-o-o-o Orion! Oh-o-o-o-o-o BRIDGE Raven/Brandon Everything will be alright If we just stay the course And coast on through the Universal source We’ll navigate, the endless darkness Starlight in our wake With all remaining human life At stake Days to weeks, then into months Then slowly into years Waiting ‘til our brand new earth appears Even when the fuel is spent And we’ve all passed away The HMS Orion flies on Through the depths of outer space Raven In the vast and lonely atmosphere Are we really all alone out here CHORUS Brandon/Raven In a galaxy light years away May we live long in a brand new way (so say we all) Set a course for somewhere wild and new May we fly at speeds of light with you Orion! (flying through the dark & starlit night) Orion! (Travelling without a hope in sight) Orion! Oh-o-o-o-o-o Orion! Oh-o-o-o-o-o
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The Anthem Of Commander Zid 05:11
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The Anthem of Commander Zid VERSE 1 Brandon All systems are offline Commander Zid reporting in and terrified All Earth’s remaining life Is waiting in the cargo hold ‘til we arrive Raven The light source burns forever But not the anti-matter drive The life force has been severed And chances are we won’t survive VERSE 2 Brandon I’ll sacrifice my life The cosmic thrust will realign and energize And though I won’t survive I’d get this bird to fly again now wouldn’t I Reactivate the light source Engage the anti-matter drive Reanimate the life force I swear to you that you’ll survive On my life! INTERLUDE All No pain, no glory Steadfast in your way All hands to starboard Steadfast in your way (repeat 1x) 2nd time [ +to save us all] Raven Please don’t go, commander, find another way Please don’t go, I beg you find another way to save us all BRIDGE Raven If I rewrite the temporal lines The chrono wave could freeze all of time And active the energy grid We’d save commander zid VERSE 3 Brandon And so nobody dies Commander Zid reporting in, and still alive And so we float along The outlook’s grim but we’ll stay strong All They’ll raise a thousand glasses And sing the songs of all that he did They’ll write a thousand anthems In honor of commander Zid To his life!
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The Traveller 08:20
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The Traveller VERSE 1 Jared Greetings from, far beyond The laws of time and space I’ve been sent to test you As the last of the human race Tomorrow is irrelevant You’re low on energy Your systems have malfunctioned And all you have is me The option is the universe, don’t you see? The bounty of the greatest mystery Would you look for a brand new earth to control Or would you let go of your instincts, and find your way back home CHORUS 1 Jared You who doubt You think you’ve figured out What everything’s about And this I can’t allow I am the traveller, light years ahead of you Singers of songs And yet you made the bombs This so-called human “kind” Is just a bad design I am the traveller, just who the hell are you? VERSE 2 Brandon Greetings from the planet Earth We’re the last of a dying race A race bound for destruction Determined to fall from grace We thought we were masters of Our elaborate design We thought we were creators of The ideal human mind Not all minds think alike, don’t you see But when it comes to faith, we embrace the mystery We look for a brand new earth, to call home Even though the ship that takes us, flies on a course unknown CHORUS 2 Brandon Here we are drifting through the stars despite all the alarms despite the endless hours we are still travellers, just not evolved as you Humankind Can only be defined By what we do with life And that we can’t deny We could be travellers, if everything was new BRIDGE Brandon It started off so well From what we could tell We began as something innocent and It all went to hell Brandon/Raven (harmony) Beyond the human race Beyond all time and space Beyond our realm of thinking There awaits a brand new earth A society’s rebirth That reinvents the universe INTERLUDE Jared I could be wrong But could it be This human speaks to me They fly with starlight in their wake On blind trajectories They seem so sure Despite the odds So they fly endlessly I may consider saving them To see who they grow to be Oh can’t you see me now Having travelled the universe Savior of all humankind And founder of a brand new earth I have to tell you what I know There is, something I should show you Hold on tight I am a traveller in time! I have the power to rewind…your world…
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The Key To Time 05:55
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The Key To Time VERSE 1 Brandon It can’t be real The tachyonic Anti-telephone told us so Yet you reveal In your reality, you Travel down temporal roads Raven Don’t think Don’t dwell on What you can’t understand PRECHORUS Jared We are the ones who travel time The sky was ours to realign The words were ours to redefine But that’s all over now VERSE 2 Jared There was a time When there were more of us But nowadays I travel alone I seem to find Solace in solitude Coasting through the temporal roads Raven Once more in the darkness Once more in the cold, unknowingly Once more in the starlight Once more on our way we go, now Don’t think Don’t dwell on What you can’t understand PRECHORUS Jared You’ll be the ones to travel time You’ll hit restart on humankind You’d best sit back and hold on tight And watch while I apply CHORUS All The key to time INTERLUDE Brandon Powered by untold amounts Of advanced technology Take a look out starboard side And tell me what you see Raven The birth of a planet Re-birth of a place we once called home Just like we imagined Just like we all used to love and know Brandon/Raven This beautiful planet Glowing bright in blue and green, no Evidence of our old lives And just the atmosphere between us, we’ve arrived…with…. CHORUS All The key to time PRECHORUS You’ve been the ones to travel time You’ve hit restart on human kind Your potential’s realized Now I bid you good luck, and goodbye All The key to time
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Prepare To Land 04:35
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Prepare To Land VERSE 1 Brandon Down we go onto a brand new earth Stars above us, fading from black into blue Brandon/Raven Gravity starts to take hold again Listen close and you’ll hear the hull burning through CHORUS Brandon/Raven Altitude dropping profoundly as we near the ground Brace yourselves and begin to start counting down VERSE 2 Brandon Steady now, hold the trajectory Captain Eve, begin descending as we planned Brandon/Raven Here we stand, fulfilling our last command Calling all hands, lock down and prepare to land CHORUS 2X
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Brand New Earth [Reprise] 13:38
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Brandon Mohlis presents his first full-length solo album "Brand New Earth: A Space Opera". As the first of what will be many multi-genre concept albums, Brand New Earth: A Space Opera tells the story of Commander Zid, and his mission to save the last of humankind following an alien attack. This album fits comfortably in the metal genre, and is influenced by the likes of Devin Townsend and Ayreon.

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released September 15, 2014

All music written and performed by Brandon Mohlis, with special guest appearances from Raven Ridinger, Jared Isaacs, Chris Blades, Kevin Underwood, and Rev. Dr. John Schaeffer.

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Brandon Mohlis is an independent musician who hopes to someday have a career in creating music. Having played music nearly his whole life and a graduate of the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences, Brandon writes, records and produces his music from the ground up. ... more

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